Into that Vast and Unrelenting Darkness (40K Xeno Civilization Quest)

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TripleTango said:
Source?

Personally, I find the word of a Chaos worshipper and the visions one may find in the birthplace of Slaanesh extremely suspect--the former have ample motive to justify their damnation, the latter ample motive to make the listener give up the fight as lost.
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the abysmal crusade Abyssal Crusade.
the saint who sent the chapters was then killed by the imperium so granted we have to trust the imperium that the guy was working for the chaos gods byt conserdering he sent several chapters into the eye of terror I think its very likely
 
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10moorem II said:
Huh.

Well that's odd, I guess we can use them in system despite reverse engineering them from the Imperium. That opens up a lot of tactical options.
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tbf I suspect there is a wealth of differnce between doing pre planned warp jumps in system and doing in combat warp jump in system
Thanatosra said:
gonna stop you their the rotten carcus imperium is chaos biggest tool (as shown as when a chaos worshipper managed to send several space marine chapters into the eye of terror
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shit that just the tip of the iceberg the entire edfice struture of the imperium literally everything about it is shit, awful, terrible that chaos absolutely thrives and loves since it provides a wealth of misery toerment for chaos to feed upon and providing it citzenery every reason to join chaos, to become devotes ect cause hey espicaly if your mutant it can't be worse than this(if you are a mutant it is quite often join chaos or die)

This kind segeways into why I am not too worried about chaos like sure it somehting we should look out for but we live in a star trek utopitan like societies that does not give much of anything for chaos to get it lathces into us and with ctan on our back our own great faith tradation and with many of our own gods watching out for us think we got to be much more worried about the more mundane terrors of the galaxy aka orcs and esspically the imperium
 
Woltaire said:
This kind segeways into why I am not too worried about chaos like sure it somehting we should look out for but we live in a star trek utopitan like societies that does not give much of anything for chaos to get it lathces into us and with ctan on our back our own great faith tradation and with many of our own gods watching out for us think we got to be much more worried about the more mundane terrors of the galaxy aka orcs and esspically the imperium
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On the other hand you can have everything and still get corrupted by chaos if they want too.Horus had love(he was Big E's golden child who he loved so much that he sent Valdor to bitchslap Magnus for breaking the Webway project and even suggesting his darling little Horus could do wrong),affection,impeccable wealth,influence,firends and subordinatres but all it took as a little bit of doubt and the 4 managed to worm their way into him.
 
10moorem II said:
Huh.

Well that's odd, I guess we can use them in system despite reverse engineering them from the Imperium. That opens up a lot of tactical options.
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If I had to make a guess, it's that we have no idea what we're doing, and no frame of reference for an 'easy' Warp Jump. All our jumps are equally terrible!

On the other hand this does have potential to end up coming up with new tricks since we're actually innovating.
 
Balmung1 said:
Horus had love(
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the problem with this is the fact that erebus exists so horus was doomed
in more serious horus had a lot of arragonce and also saw a vision of the fucture and went holy shit thats awful. whiel our society is in no way inmune to chaos (we are not necrons after all) its lies are less likely to effect cause for example nurgles plagues well we don't have the hives of the imperium
 
Thanatosra said:
the problem with this is the fact that erebus exists so horus was doomed
in more serious horus had a lot of arragonce and also saw a vision of the fucture and went holy shit thats awful. whiel our society is in no way inmune to chaos (we are not necrons after all) its lies are less likely to effect cause for example nurgles plagues well we don't have the hives of the imperium
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On the other hand trying to fight Nurglite plagues using science alone isn't a good idea.Not only do the damn things evolve faster than you can cure them most of the time but they also take sadistic glee in breaking people's will to fight and a squad of plague marines have been known to make Civilized Worlds with perfectly healthy ecosystems straight up die within weeks by just taking a walk around the planet without any special spells and shit.
 
Thanatosra said:
in more serious horus had a lot of arragonce and also saw a vision of the fucture and went holy shit thats awful. whiel our society is in no way inmune to chaos (we are not necrons after all) its lies are less likely to effect cause for example nurgles plagues well we don't have the hives of the imperium
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horus also just plain out sucked like he sucked he was not a good dude and he was a indivual rife with so many flaw that chaos could latch onto. He was also pretty fucking mad that the emp was taking away power from the legiona and moving away from the great crusade model into a systemen where emps held more power. tbqh u can make a good case that horus was already longterm heading toward rebllion with or without chaosanyway see horus just completpyl igroning all the empoear order on what to do with other civilzaiton with the internex and being repaptly warned emps would not condone or want this and horus going he ain't here.
 
aceraptor said:
Haven't really been spoken about in full. But the general idea would probably be getting all of the Temples up and completing all the stuff that provides protection against malign influences.

Temple of the Lanternkeeper should be rather high up in our priority to get done. Enshrined Spirits to turn our Shrines into places that protects against supernatural phenomena (aka daemons/Chaos fuckery). Faerie Shrine to protect the dreams of Tekkets (though given they are faeries there may be negative side effect as well depending on rolls).

Holy-Talisman to get the Tekket started on the path to personal wards against hostile Warp influence, etc.

There are options available to us. We just haven't been taking them since there's been higher priority projects.
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Surely this is a case of a dose of prevention being worth a ton of cure. Because Chaos excels at subversion, spending a turn or two focusing on keeping it from getting its hooks in will mean it's much easier to deal with later. It's a societal version of cancer.

Which yes, is using OOC reasoning, but there are IC reasons to pursue those things.
 
Temple of the Peerless Immortal Functionary might also be useful in understanding what the different warp entities the Tekket are dealing with are, as well as allowing the various minor, unaffiliated warp spirits (machine and nature spirits) there are to better resist incursions from Chaos. Their domain and attributes should also make them hard for Chaos to co-opt because they're a boring paper-pushing bureaucrat.
 
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Citrakayah said:
Temple of the Peerless Immortal Functionary might also be useful in understanding what the different warp entities the Tekket are dealing with are, as well as allowing the various minor, unaffiliated warp spirits (machine and nature spirits) there are to better resist incursions from Chaos. Their domain and attributes should also make them hard for Chaos to co-opt because they're a boring paper-pushing bureaucrat.
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God help us if Guiliman ever finds out about about PIF's existence......not sure Big E would take losing one of his, if not only loyal son betraying him in 40k well.
 
The Tekket approach to religion is to staple everything to the wall in order to make sure they cover any eventuality.
 
Well the Orks will probably like us, but apart from that I wouldn't expect too many encounters with any major powers. We are a bit too small for them to be concerned with.
 
Drakewolfbio said:
i forgot is this 30k or 40k I am guessing 40k but well with of the main races do you guys think we will get along with best not good, best
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the eldar might view us better then the imperium who they call monsters of great destruction (I believe this is what monkeigh means) but that doesn't say much they prob will just use us like they do the humans as shields , the tau will want to teach us the greater good or if we refuse enough kill us. the orks will want to fight us unless we find their of switch and tryanids want to eat everything and the necrons believe the galaxy belongs to them. so I would say the tau cause they will try to make us join them through peace which is more then the others can give
 
my answer for who are second place friends will be is that it gonna be some other minor alien civilization or society out there that not been introduced in quest yet and likely not in ever been shown in canon
 
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Hey, if we lean in on Star Trek stuff hard enough, we might be able to recruit so.e Orks by convincing them to play the role of Klingons.
 
Stars Burning said:
I think that we should get all of the gods their first temple before we do the Hallowed shrines along with the Enshrined spirits
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I've been pushing Enshrined Spirits these past few turns because with the various ShipShrines I think it's one of the few cheap ways we have to increase the safety of warp travel; it can also provide non-warp supernatural protection for our acrologies too with the CityShrines in case we get another bad roll on HazardTek and get slapped with something like the Lifesurge again.



Here's what I'm working on as a plan base, going by last turns numbers so we'll probably have some extra points in EXP and FTH to spend that are not accounted for here.

The big things in this plan are finishing up the last two quadrants so we're not totally blind to 50% of our surroundings, getting our warp capable ships set up with a herd-boosted Secondary Enshrined Spirits combo and the Revelation scanner so we can send them out to explore better and for longer, getting up some more and boosted DSMs because of the big bolded paragraph telling us they're seeing something weird, and putting a bunch of the work needed into getting a Valiant.

Completing Lifeforce Batteries also gives us the 1 Warp we need to finish Mystek Protective Wards the turn after, the same turn that the Valiant would be launching and the same turn that we would be able to complete our Extremely Advanced NukeTek weapons for it.

[] Plan: Scanning the Circle
-[] Explore Galactic North
--[] TKK Endeavor
-[] Explore Galactic East
--[] TKK Accomplishment
-[] EXP (33+)
--[] Construct Valiant Class Ship +19 (19/40)
--[] Orbital Defense Arrays +2 (10/10) -1 Nuclear
--[] Deep Space Monitors +2 (2/2) -1 Network
--[] Geode Canyon Extraction Operation +10 (10/10) +1 Nuclear
-[] CUL (22)
--[] Compulsory Secondary Education +5 (10/10) -1 Network
--[] Secondary ShipShrines +15 (15/15)
--[] Frontier Hospital +2 (2/20)
-[] FTH (22+)
--[] Enshrined Spirits +10 (10/10)
--[] Lifeforce Batteries +9 (10/10) +1 Warp
--[] Mystek Protective Wards +2 (22/40)
-[] ACD (23)
--[] Extremely Advanced NukeTek +3 (3/20)
--[] Revelation Class Scanner +20 (20/20) -1 Artefact

Nuclear: 2 > 2
Artefact: 2 > 1
Warp: 0 > 1
Living: 1
Network 2 > 0
 
10moorem II said:
Well the Orks will probably like us, but apart from that I wouldn't expect too many encounters with any major powers. We are a bit too small for them to be concerned with.
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The problem with Orks is that Ork logic tends to get redirected towards the same end result of waging war, or at least most of the main clans tend to do so - with exception to Freebooterz and Blood Axes, who are more mercenary in nature.

So the Orks might like us. They might like our tek and try to enslave us or loot it, they might like us as a species and try to "toughen you up", or they might just get annoyed at our non-orky Star Trek nonsense and attack for that reason.
 
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